All over the news in Sweden right now

A 30 year old zoo keeper was killed in a wolf attack at Kolmården Zoo on Sunday. The woman is believed to have entered the wolf enclosure alone, and been with the wolves up to one hour before her colleagues discovered that she was missing. Since she was alone and the enclosure has no CCTV monitoring no one knows exactly what happened but her personal belongings were found all over the enclosure so it seems she’s been knocked over and dragged away by the wolves.

The zoo keeper had been working with the eight wolves for over three years and also looked after three of them since they were puppies. She was also one of the wolf guides at the zoo’s wild encounters program where visitors, together with the guide went into the wolf enclosure and during an hour got to know the animal more closely. This activity has due to the attack on Sunday ceased to exist. The zoo has still not decided whether the wolves will be put down.

Apparently there hasn’t been a fatal wolf attack in Sweden since the 1820’s when a wolf killed nine people, most of whom were young children.

Sometimes a picture speaks more than a thousand words. That’s why we’re introducing the new category – Pic of the day. The idea is to post random photos in this category from two of the most beautiful countries in the world – Sweden and Australia! We’re off to a flying start but the idea isn’t necessarily to post one photo every day but rather when we feel like it, but we’ll see how we go. Enjoy!

Lovely kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo (Australia).

All photos in this category are taken by us and we appreciate if you don’t use them without our permission.

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A Swede and an Australian blogging together gives you a Swaussie blog.

We met in Australia 2009 and we choose to share our life and adventures with you in this blog. We had a long distance relationship between Sweden & Australia for 10 months. Between August 2010 and July 2012 we lived together in Sweden and now we're back living in Melbourne.

In the blog we mix blog posts in English and Swedish, share with you what it's like to move and live in another country than your home country, the culture shocks we experience, the differences we encounter between Sweden and Australia and much, much more.

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